Major strike in Germany

AP/Daniel Maurer

Major strike in GermanyA metal worker waves a union flag in the crowd in front of the Bosch-Siemens factory site for household devices in Giengen, southern Germany, on May 7. Germany's largest industrial union hobbled production at three luxury-car makers in its first major strike in seven years, starting a series of one-day walkouts that some economists say could worsen the country's economic troubles just as it emerges from recession.

Major strike in GermanyA metal worker waves a union flag in the crowd in front of the Bosch-Siemens factory site for household devices in Giengen, southern Germany, on May 7. Germany's largest industrial union hobbled production at three luxury-car makers in its first major strike in seven years, starting a series of one-day walkouts that some economists say could worsen the country's economic troubles just as it emerges from recession. (AP/Daniel Maurer)

Major strike in GermanyA metal worker waves a union flag in the crowd in front of the Bosch-Siemens factory site for household devices in Giengen, southern Germany, on May 7. Germany's largest industrial union hobbled production at three luxury-car makers in its first major strike in seven years, starting a series of one-day walkouts that some economists say could worsen the country's economic troubles just as it emerges from recession.